Press release from Humboldt State University:

Humboldt State University President Lisa A. Rossbacher has joined 109 other university presidents across the country calling for President-elect Donald Trump to “to condemn and work to prevent the harassment, hate and acts of violence that are being perpetrated across our nation, sometimes in your name, which is now synonymous with our nation’s highest office.”

See the full text of the letter, as well as a list of signees, below.

Dear President-elect Trump,

As do you, we “seek common ground, not hostility; partnership, not conflict.” In order to maintain the trust required for such productive engagement, it is essential that we immediately reaffirm the core values of our democratic nation: human decency, equal rights, freedom of expression and freedom from discrimination. As college and university presidents, we commit ourselves to promoting these values on our campuses and in our communities, and we stand alongside the business, nonprofit, religious and civic leaders who are doing the same in organizations large and small.

In light of your pledge to be “President for all Americans,” we urge you to condemn and work to prevent the harassment, hate and acts of violence that are being perpetrated across our nation, sometimes in your name, which is now synonymous with our nation’s highest office. In our schools, on job sites and college campuses, on public streets and in coffee shops, members of our communities, our children, our families, our neighbors, our students and our employees are facing very real threats, and are frightened.

One of the roles of leaders is to protect and empower the most vulnerable. As president-elect, this responsibility rests heavily on you.

Let this be a mark of your leadership.

• Raymond E. Crossman, Adler University
  Mauri Ditzler, Albion College
  Mark Zupan, Alfred University
  Jeff Abernathy, Alma College
  Biddy Martin, Amherst College
  William R. Groves, Antioch University
  John M. Sullivan, Art Academy of Cincinnati
  Paul C. Pribbenow, Augsburg College
  Steven Bahls, Augustana College
  Marjorie Hass, Austin College
  Leon Botstein, Bard College
  Mac Powell, Bastyr University
  Scott Bierman, Beloit College
  Mariko Silver, Bennington College
  David C. Joyce, Brevard College
  Kimberly Wright Cassidy, Bryn Mawr College
  Nancy Blattner, Caldwell University
  Donald J. Laackman, Champlain College
  Frank G. Pogue, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania (interim president)
  David McInally, Coe College
  Brian W. Casey, Colgate University
  Helen J. Streubert, College of Saint Elizabeth
  Reverend Philip L. Boroughs, College of the Holy Cross
  Jonathan Brand, Cornell College
  Jann Weitzel, Cottey College
  Carol Quillen, Davidson College
  Mark McCoy, DePauw University
  Walter M. Kimbrough, Dillard University
  MaryAnn Baenninger, Drew University
  Donald Eastman, Eckerd College
  Carl J. Strikwerda, Elizabethtown College
  Jake B. Schrum, Emory & Henry College
  James A. Anderson, Fayetteville State University
  J. Michael Pressimone, Fontbonne University
  Daniel Porterfield, Franklin & Marshall College
  Elizabeth Davis, Furman University
  Janet Morgan Riggs, Gettysburg College
  Robert Kenny, Goddard College
  Mark Scheinberg, Goodwin College
  Jose Antonio Bowen, Goucher College
  Raynard S. Kington, Grinnell College
  Jane K. Fernandes, Guilford College
  Rebecca M. Bergman, Gustavus Adolphus College
  John J. “Ski” Sygielski, HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College
  Margaret L. Drugovich, Hartwick College
  Kimberly Benston, Haverford College
  Lori Varlotta, Hiram College
  Mark D. Gearan, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  Andrea Chapdelaine, Hood College
  Shirley A. Mullen, Houghton College
  Lisa A. Rossbacher, Humboldt State University
  Alison Byerly, Lafayette College
  Dan McAlexander, LaGrange College
  Michael B. Alexander, Lasell College
  Mark Burstein, Lawrence University
  Barry Glassner, Lewis & Clark College
  Richard Green, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
  Reverend Brian F. Linnane, Loyola University Maryland
  Kenneth R. Garren, Lynchburg College
  Brian Rosenberg, Macalester College
  Stuart Kestenbaum, Maine College of Art
  James Gandre, Manhattan School of Music
  Kevin F. F. Quigley, Marlboro College
  Kerry Walk, Marymount Manhattan College
  Laurie Patton, Middlebury College
  Bryon Grigsby, Moravian College
  John Silvanus Wilson Jr., Morehouse College
  David Wilson, Morgan State University
  Stanley J. Pritchett Sr., Morris Brown College
  Sonya Stephens, Mount Holyoke College (acting president)
  Timothy E. Trainor, Mount St. Mary’s University
  John I. Williams Jr., Muhlenberg College
  Kent Devereaux, New Hampshire Institute of Art
  Richard Helldobler, Northeastern Illinois University (interim president)
  Lawrence Schall, Oglethorpe University
  David W. Oxtoby, Pomona College
  Debbie Sydow, Richard Bland College
  Allan Cahoon, Royal Roads University
  Rachel Schreiber, San Francisco Art Institute (interim president)
  Karen R. Lawrence, Sarah Lawrence College
  Tracy Fitzsimmons, Shenandoah University
  Susan E. Henking, Shimer College
  Peg Albert, Siena Heights University
  Joe Bertolino, Southern Connecticut State University
  David Rees Evans, Southern Vermont College
  Edward B. Burger, Southwestern University
  John A. Pieper, St. Louis College of Pharmacy
  Kevin J. Manning, Stevenson University
  Valerie Smith, Swarthmore College
  Susan C. Scrimshaw, the Sage Colleges
  John M. McCardell Jr., the University of the South
  Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Trinity College (Connecticut)
  Stephen C. Ainlay, Union College (New York)
  Thomas W. Keefe, University of Dallas
  Quint Thurman, University of the Southwest
  Jonathan Chenette, Vassar College (interim president)
  Thomas Christopher Greene, Vermont College of Fine Arts
  Scott D. Miller, Virginia Wesleyan College
  Weymouth Spence, Washington Adventist University
  Joseph Kline, Watkins College
  Jonathan Gibralter, Wells College
  Michael S. Roth, Wesleyan University
  Dennis Hanno, Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
  David J. Chard, Wheelock College
  Sharon Herzberger, Whittier College
  Stephen E. Thorsett, Willamette University
  Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, William Jewell College
  Adam Falk, Williams College
  Barbara K. Mistick, Wilson College